hand saw blade guards, need a source

Sorry not "WWS" (woodworker's supply)...I meant highland-hardware.

Depending on length of saw and how much fiddling you wan to do, you might want to take a look at the slide on 'report' binders sold in places like Staples. IIRC, they're pretty cheap and operate on the same principle.

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For small saws try Office Depot or Staples. The spines used for report covers work well.

For larger saws slitting the smallest PVC pipe you can find (1/8" pipe is just under 1/4" ID) should work or you can make your own out of wood.

Wood is probably better than PVC. The latter will give off a little hydrogen cloride over time and may damage the saw.

I guess that is the special pipe they have in the back, with negative wall thickness!

How about cheap garden hose or similar tubing for large saws?

'Nother alternative, try slitting some 1/4 or 5/16" vacuum hose.

Nahmie

Hey, that's a great idea. I hate those crappy things, but they would work great on a saw.

Lobby Dosser wrote in news:C5X3e.1712$%b1.1627@trnddc08:

The sharpening service I use, Bay Area Carbide, in Concord, CA, uses a sliced plastic tubing to cover the teeth of the circular blades after sharpening. They also have a slide/clip cover for the hand saws they did for me. So next time you have a sawblade sharpened, or buy a new blade, or router/shaper bits, or similar, ask the counter person of you can buy a couple of extras. Turns out I couldn't buy any, but they gave me a few. After three or four years, they recognize me a little.

Good folks, mentioned by name in response to Morris' micro-rant in an earlier post.

Patriarch

At least that should put to rest the popular misconception that pipe is sized by ID.

For that thought I then thought "why not rubber medical tubing" for hand saws? ...I think making that slice would be something to think about, to do it evenly.

That'd work, it's just a bit clumsier to use something flexible.

Garden hose, split down the middle.

OK guys I went ahead and bought into those expensive ones, thicker plastic and made for the job exactly. Donwanna deal with going crazy over the solution of saving $$$ and then doing the work it takes... they should last and it was easier just to order them. My 1st order with HH so I'll see how they perform too. Thanks greatly for all the humor, I love every one of you guys. I really do... everyone is a brother.

Kinda massive for just a basic hand saw I think...? Yoogly too!

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 16:02:44 -0400, the inscrutable "Norman D. Crow" spake:

C'mon, guys. Can you say "saw till"? I knew you could.

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STOP PRESS!! Vinyl Glazing Channel/Spline at the Borg?

Spline at the borg? Vinyl glazing channel? That the same idea as those plastic binders rib things at staples? Only longer?

I like big. Easy to handle, hard to loose.

I got a bunch of 'em at Sears, lo these many years ago. Don't know if they still have them, though...

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Yes. See also the post about the 8' lengths of plastic channel for decorative panels.